PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Immanuel Kant, Categorical Imperative, Practical Reason
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The good: highest or supreme good involving the purpose or function of human nature. We have two parts to us, rational and animal. Animal part has inclinations: physical states to be satisfied, and instinct: basic animal drives to satisfy inclinations; happiness is giving in to more complex inclinations, but it has nothing to do with the supreme good. Moral theories define basic moral terms and distinctions, are normative. If the good involves function of human nature then it involves use of reason, there are three types: Theoretical material objects in universe or natural world. Means-ends reasoning (how to get whatever you happen to want, to happen) Law of instrumental reason (if i desire q and p is necessary for q then i need to do p) Practical laws (requirements regardless of what you want) Good concerns practical use, aka will, aka having a good will: acts on its own laws pure practical laws, acts from incentives of reasons.
